OER / OA & Policy Opportunity
Cable Green
Hi All:
The attached document is en route to Washington D.C. with our system’s Trustees and Presidents for conversations with Washington State’s Senators and Congresspeople at the ACCT National Legislative Summit (Feb 13-16).
… with this language:
· Please thank your legislator for their support of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grant of $2 billion. This landmark, precedent setting federal grant requires all educational content produced with grant funding be openly licensed and available to the public – maximizing the impact of public tax dollars.
o Washington Colleges will be able to adopt and use, at no additional cost, all $2B of programs, courses and textbooks created!
o Washington state can receive as much as $5 million dollars for successful grant proposal for individual colleges and as much as $20 million (or more) for statewide or multi-state consortium proposals.
and
Co-sponsor the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA)
FRPAA will ensure that articles reporting on the results of federally funded research are made widely accessible to millions of researchers, entrepreneurs, teachers, and students, helping to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery, fuel innovation and economic development, and improve the quality of U.S. STEM education.
· Community College libraries cannot afford expensive academic journals. FRPAA will ensure publicly funded research is available to all Washington students.
I’m sharing this as an example of how we Open Educational Resources / Open Access folks can tie our message into existing Policy channels.
Feel free to remix / reuse for your local policy opportunities…
Good weekend,
Cable
Cable Green, PhD
Director of eLearning & Open Education
(e) cgr...@sbctc.edu / (p) 360-704-4334